On today’s episode: Sleeping pills might be gunking up your brain. And we revisit a conversation about societal perceptions of science. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Sleeping pills stop the brain's system for cleaning out waste

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

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On today’s episode: Gene evidence from Iron Age Britain points to a much more female-centered society. Astronomers talk all about Dark Energy… but a new model proposes that maybe it’s not even real! All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin
• Cosmological foundations revisited with Pantheon+

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: Perseverance is leaving samples all over the surface of Mars. Will we ever get them back? Maybe? Hopefully?

Babies! What’s their deal? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• NASA defers decision on Mars Sample Return to the Trump administration
• https://atlanticeyeinstitute.com/eye-color-physics-or-genetics/
• https://www.ophthalmology24.com/baby-eye-color-change#:~:text=Beyond%20genetic%20traits%2C%20eye%20color,deposition%2C%20prolonging%20lighter%20eye%20color
• https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/blue-eyes-pigment-common-relative/134687/
• https://www.science.org/content/article/dont-it-make-your-brown-eyes-blue
• https://www.hudsonalpha.org/genetics-of-eye-color/
• https://www.tunepocket.com/royalty-free-music/womb-sound-ambiance/?srsltid=AfmBOopZb3rJtw165AURKgUsbA3zB-AyHRw8c0ARrJbkTqu9XuHNTOIT
• https://www.marchofdimes.org/find-support/topics/pregnancy/amniotic-fluid
• https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/23310-amniotic-fluid

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: Can we cross the uncanny valley? Time to clean out the listener mailbag and answer some of your questions! All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Crossing the Uncanny Valley: Breakthrough in technology for lifelike facial expressions in androids - ResOU
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQm5RCz9Pxc
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallowing
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC6CrUZcW-A
• JPL - Custom Orbit Visualization Tool

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: There’s been a huge breakthrough in HIV prevention. Move over, oxytocin, there’s a new love hormone in town! Scientists may have figured out a way to reverse the effects of lupus. This worm’s remarkable eyes may change how we envision sight. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• HIV Drug Breakthrough
• Science confirms it: Love leaves a mark on your brain | CU Boulder Today
• Scientists discover a cause of lupus and a possible way to reverse it
• Mediterranean marine worm has developed eyes “as big as millstones" – University of Copenhagen

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: We may have gotten all of our Neanderthal DNA from a single, short-lived rendezvous. And we look into the psychology of holiday beliefs. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Studies pin down exactly when humans and Neanderthals swapped DNA
• https://liberalarts.mercer.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/07/SharonTWoolleyJD2004.pdf
• https://uva.theopenscholar.com/files/early-development-lab/files/the_effect_of_realistic_8.pdf?preview=true
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9418217/
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/1132284
• https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-25574-001.pdf

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: Good news for electric vehicle owners; your batteries will last much longer than we thought! Is AI becoming more deceptive in an effort to keep itself from being deleted? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Existing EV batteries may last up to 40% longer than expected | Stanford Report
• Is It Bad to Charge an Electric Vehicle to 100%?
• OpenAI o1 System Card
• Specific Gaming Examples in AI
• OpenAI o1 explained: Everything you need to know | Tech Target
• OpenAI's o1 lies more than any major AI model. Why that matters | ZDNET
• OpenAI's new o1 model sometimes fights back when it thinks it'll be shut down and then lies about it | Business Insider
• The new followup to ChatGPT is scarily good at deception | Vox
• What Is Chain-of-Thought Prompting in Generative AI? | Video
• https://www.transformernews.ai/p/openais-new-model-tried-to-avoid

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode:It turns out that it doesn’t matter whether it’s true or not… your uncle is still going to share that weird article he found. And we once again explore the Drake equation; could intelligent life be out there? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• People will share misinformation that sparks “moral outrage”
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-we-probably-wont-find-aliens-anytime-soon/
• https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/technosignatures-and-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence/
• https://cires.colorado.edu/news/potential-indicators-life-other-planets-can-be-created-lab
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08724
• https://www.sci.news/astronomy/webb-biosignature-gas-k2-18b-12904.html
• https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/biosignatures-exoplanets
• https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/can-we-find-life/

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: Pandrug-resistant bacteria might be better at causing disease than we thought. Why do we cry? It doesn’t seem to be very useful… or does it? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Pandrug-resistant bacteria from the war in Ukraine are extremely pathogenic | Lund University
• https://time.com/4254089/science-crying/
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/43714978
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28831948/
• https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/09/07/curious-behvaior-provine/
• https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1135127182

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: Sitting or standing at work… which one is healthier? We examine the first three variables in the Drake equation. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Are standing desks good for you? The answer is getting clearer.
• https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/53/6/dyae136/7822310?login=false
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33813968/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Fkvtr2z8M&ab_channel=SETIInstitute
• https://www.livescience.com/space/exoplanets/there-may-be-hundreds-of-millions-of-habitable-planets-in-the-milky-way-new-study-suggests
• https://www.britannica.com/science/Drake-equation
• https://www.e-education.psu.edu/astro801/content/l12_p5.html
• https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/facts/

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.